The Mozart Effect

'Any gain spatial intelligence lasts for only 10-15 minutes and no other noise should be heard while Mozart is being played in order to ensure the brain's capacity to infuse the music.'
Society has often hoped for a quick and simple way of increasing intelligence. In 1993, such a possibility was offered by researchers at the University of California, Irvine. Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993) found that a group of 36 college undergraduates improved their spatial-temporal intelligence (the ability to mentally manipulate objects in three-dimensional space) after listening to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata. Results showed that student' IQ scores improved by 8-9 points and lasted for 10-15 minutes. The findings, which were later dubbed the Mozart effect, have spawned both criticism and support for music's ability to alter intelligence.
Listening to Mozart will purported to improve only spatial intelligence, not general intelligence.

Why might the Mozart effect happen?
a biological argument for music was developed by the original researchers using the biological functioning of the human brain.

The original Mozart effect researchers based their rationale on the trion model of the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is a part of the brain that helps with, among other things, motor control, speech, memory, and auditory reception. The trion model, developed by Shaw, showed that similar neural firings patterns occur when listening to music and performing spatial tasks (Leng & Shaw, 1991). Rauscher and Shaw hypothesized that listening to certain types of complex music may "warm-up" neural transmitters inside the cerebral cortex and thereby improve spatial performance.
Other researchers have been wary of the findings presented by Rauscher and colleagues. Instead, Mozart effect critics have claimed the spatial intelligence increase to be nothing more than a shift in participants' arousal, which then produces better spatial test scores (Steele, 2000; Thompson, Schellenberg, & Husain, 2001). In essence, their argument is that listening to Mozart's music causes either an increase or decrease in someone's arousal and mood to a level that is more optimal for testing. Personal preference for the music heard in Mozart effect testing may also be a possible influence on increasing spatial test scores (Nantais & Schellenberg, 1999).

How much is spatial intelligence increased?

No evidence exists that supports a direct link between greater math ability and listening to Mozart's music.
No psychological study that has attempted research in the area of Mozart and physical wellbeing.
The first Mozart effect publication showed participants' spatial intelligence scores improved by 8-9 points, by far the largest increase reported in the literature. A meta-analysis of Mozart effect research showed an increase of 1.4 general IQ points between participants listening to Mozart or silence (Chabris, 1999). However, this IQ score included studies that did not strictly measure for spatial intelligence. When analyzing studies that only used spatial intelligence, results showed an increase of 2.1 general IQ points (Chabris, 1999). The IQ scores created by the meta-analysis may not be particularly promising since they are less than the normal standard deviation (15 points) found in the Fourth Edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, which includes the prominent spatial subtest used in Mozart effect research. Additionally, the meta-analysis IQ scores were not specifically calculated for spatial ability, but instead present an overall intelligence increase, which is beyond the scope intended by the original Mozart effect authors.


Who has been tested?
Mozart effect research has never been conducted with babies or infants.
The majority of Mozart effect research has been conducted on college undergraduates. Although some media outlets have claimed Mozart's music improves a baby's intelligence, as yet, no test involving the possible influence of this music on infants' spatial intelligence has been conducted. The youngest group of participants that have been tested had a mean age of 11.95 years (McKelvie & Low, 2002). Currently, no testing has been done on older adults, adolescents, or other developmental levels.

What music has been used?
The music used in the first Mozart effect experiment was Mozart's Sonata for two pianos in D-major, K.448. This has continued to be the primary song used in Mozart effect research. Other styles of also been attempted such as Yanni, which was believed to have similar musical properties as Mozart, minimalist music by Philip Glass, the dance group Aqua, and pieces by Albinoni and Schubert. Some non-musical selections have also been compared to Mozart music, such as a George Carlin comedy performance and a Stephen King story read aloud. Of these different selections, the music of Yanni and Mozart have been the only styles to increase spatial scores. To date, no published research on the Mozart effect has used any other non-classical musical pieces.


Problems with Mozart effect research
Georgia Governor Zell Miller proposed to spend $105,000 on classical music CDs for newborns before a record company offered to provide them at no cost (Sack, 1998).
Many of the current Mozart effect studies contain faulty research procedures. The use of an independent control group has not been used in several studies (Hughes, 2001; Rauscher, Shaw and Ky, 1993; Rideout & Taylor, 1997; Rideout, Dougherty, & Werner, 1998; Steele, Bass, & Crook, 1999; and Steele, Brown, and Stoecker, 1999), and thereby does not allow a comparison of scores between listening to Mozart and merely attempting the spatial problems. Besides Steele, Ball, and Runk (1997), the Stanford-Binet spatial subtest (paper folding and cutting questions) has been the only spatial measure used within Mozart effect research. Using only one test limits the understanding of the Mozart effect to the criteria seen in the lone spatial measure. Additionally, no study has provided demographic descriptors of their participants (e.g., race, gender, socioeconomic status), which may influence intelligence test scores. These are a few of the problems that severely hinder the legitimacy of any results garnered from Mozart effect research.


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Prepare For A Concert !!

1.Eat a banana.

 Bananas do an incredible job of making those little pre-performance butterflies disappear. I don't know why, but they do. Maybe it's all the potassium bananas have. They don't help all the nerves necessarily, but you won't have to worry about your gut.

2. Be goal oriented 

Take some time before your performance to reflect on what you're doing. If you battle jitters, shakes, or just general concert anxiety, it will behoove you to take a moment and consider the reason for the performance. Be goal oriented. Rewarding yourself afterwards never hurts (and I don't necessarily mean going to the bar). Your rational for performing firmly in mind can change the way you play/sing.
3. Mentally see the sheet music.

Try to imagine the piece as sheet music while you hear it mentally. This is especially important if you’re playing by heart, in which case you should sit down with just the sheet music a day or two before a concert. Read through it like a book, and hear the music in the back of your head. Go through your music in your mind - it's not all about the muscle memory. Play it in your head - it's the best MP3 player on the planet! Be Musical! Be cool! Perform for a purpose!

4. Play the piece completely, like at the concert, around half an hour before showtime.

And then, don’t touch your instrument in that half hour. Instead, go drink water, talk to other performers, or just meditate. Don’t go near the music. 5 minutes before the beginning, run through the first few bars mentally. Not more. The rest will flow naturally.

5. Plan ahead of concerts.

If I know I have a concert in a week, I set up a game plan for that week. I usually tell myself the concert is two days earlier and try to get top form by that day. Then in the last 48 hours, I won’t play parts of the piece anymore, only the entire piece without breaks. Keeping a plan ahead of time eliminates the “I didn’t practice enough” feeling.

Have a try ; )

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Road sings

Melody road ( Japan)

Motorists used to listening to the radio or their favourite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.

A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of "melody roads", which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.

The concept works by using grooves, which are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. Just as travelling over small speed bumps or road markings can emit a rumbling tone throughout a vehicle, the melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.

Depending on how far apart the grooves are, a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, enabling cunning designers to create a distinct tune.

Patent documents for the design describe it as notches "formed in a road surface so as to play a desired melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones".

There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan - one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Notice of an impending musical interlude, which lasts for about 30 seconds, is highlighted by coloured musical notes painted on to the road. According to reports, the system was the brainchild of Shizuo Shinoda, who accidentally scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer before driving over them and realising that they helped to produce a variety of tones.

The designs were refined by engineers at the institute in Sapporo. The team has previously worked on new technologies including the use of infra-red light to detect dangerous road surfaces.

But motorists expecting to create their own hard rock soundtrack could find themselves struggling to live the dream. Not only is the optimal speed for achieving melody road playback a mere 28mph, but locals say it is not always easy get the intended sound.

"You need to keep the car windows closed to hear well," wrote one Japanese blogger. "Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward, while driving around 12mph has a slow-motion effect, making you almost car sick."

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Singing road ( Korea )

Now engineers in South Korea and Japan have one-upped the rumble strip by creating "singing" highways.

Also known as melody roads, these new thoroughfares use cars, specifically their tires, as tuning forks to play music as they barrel along. The musical roads are created by a series of grooves, cut at very specific intervals, in the surface of the asphalt.

Much like the vibrations and rumbles produced on a bumpy or poorly maintained street, engineers discovered that different notes were produced when grooves were placed at certain intervals along the surface. Depending on how far apart the grooves are, tires moving over them produce a series of high or low notes, enabling designers to create a distinct tune.

With 68 percent of highway accidents in Korea caused by inattentive, sleeping or speeding drivers, the Korean Highway Corp., as well as the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute in Japan, came up with the idea of musical road surfaces to keep motorists entertained but also to reduce their speed and help them stay alert.

Referring to a particularly treacherous section of South Korea's singing highway, Seung-Hwan Shin, manager of the Korean Highway Corp., said, "That place is in a downhill, S-curved road, so there's been lots of accidents from dozing and speeding."

Shin, along with other Korean highway officials, hope these new roads significantly reduce the number of accidents caused by distracted drivers every year.

But creating these singing streets isn't easy. It takes thousands of grooves carved into a road to create even one song. Shin said construction for one song took four days. On Korean highways, the song of the streets is the simple, yet sweet "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

Transforming those vibrations into a melody, however, depends on the distance between the grooves, which may vary between 5.3 centimeters and 10.6 centimeters. The rhythm, on the other hand, is controlled by the length of the groove. For example, to get one second of the C, or "do" note, the groove must be stretched to 28 meters.

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Civic Musical Road ( California )

Originally created for a Honda commercial in September 2008, the Civic Musical Road consists of strategically placed grooves that, when driven over, produce the musical notes to the finale of Rossini's "William Tell Overture."

Located in Lancaster, California, the original road was constructed on Avenue K, but city officials paved over it 18 days later due to noise complaints from the nearby neighbors. It was reported that the neighbors were also sick of the "crazy behavior" of some of the drivers.

The road was rebuilt on Avenue G in October 2008 and remains there to this day. The new location is two miles away from any residential areas, therefore presenting less problems for the locals. Visitors who wish to hear the musical piece must stay in the far left lane of the three-lane road. Though many drivers have tried the road at multiple speeds, it is said that driving at 55mph provides the optimal sound quality. Incidentally, 55pmh is also the posted speed limit.

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Sea Organ

The Sea organ is an architectural object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps. The waves create somewhat random but harmonic sounds. The device was made by the architect Nikola Bašić as part of the project to redesign the new city coast (Nova riva), and the site was opened to the public on 15 April 2005.


Structure

Nikola Bašić

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Alat Musik Langkah dan Unik

15 alat musik yang langkah dan unik. 


Kalimbas

Kalimbas, juga dikenal sebagai piano ibu jari, adalah bagian dari keluarga instrumen perkusi. Alat ini terbuat dari buluh atau ujung, yang kemudian dipetik dengan ibu jari atau jari orang yang bermain dan getaran dari buluh ini kemudian diperkuat melalui kotak resonator berongga atau papan suara untuk menciptakan musik.

Glass Armonica

Harmonika kaca adalah satu set mangkuk kaca atau cangkir, ukuran bervariasi, untuk menghasilkan nada musik oleh gesekan.

Cucumber Phones

Ini adalah bagian dari orkestra sayuran dari Wina. Memiliki bagian mulut wortel, tubuh mentimun dan cabai merah di pangkalan untuk membantu proyek suara. orkestra ini tidak membuang makanan. Setelah selesai mereka membawa kerumah dan menjadikan nya sup.

Travel Didgeridoo

Didgeridoo ini dikenal sebagai alat musik tiup. Panjangnya sekitar 1 sampai 4 kaki. Semakin panjang instrumen, semakin rendah nada tersebut. Didalam perjalanan dapat dibongkar dan ditempatkan dalam tas ransel.

Ballon Music

Ballon musik terbuat dari balon yang ditiup, dan dibuka. Ukuran balon membuat perbedaan nada-nada pada ballon.

Anarchestra

Ini adalah instrumen yang terbuat dari baja dengan bagian-bagian lain yang sangat kecil seperti potongan-potongan mulut dan tuning mesin. Anda dapat membuat seluruh ansambel dengan instrumen dan mampu menghibur penonton jika Anda tahu cara bermain.

Fence Music

Anda bisa mendapatkan musik dengan menggunakan logam atau kawat pagar dengan busur biola. Menggunakan kabel seperti tali biola, Anda dapat mendengar suara resonansi berasal dari mereka saat bergerak mundur dan maju dari busur.

Musical Saw

Ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan gergaji tangan. Ketika menempatkan titik kontrol antara lutut Anda, Anda harus menggunakan satu tangan untuk mempertahankan kontrol lain, sementara kurva dari pisau di dalam, membuat suatu bentuk "S". Anda dapat menggunakan busur biola untuk memetik dan apa yang disebut yang disebut titik "manis", yang merupakan bagian pisau yang rata. Orang yang mengontrol nada dengan menggerakkan pisau.

Cheese Drum Set

Setiap roda keju dikonfigurasi sebagai satu set drum. Mempunyai ukuranyang berbeda-beda, drum biasa dan stick digunakan untuk bermain. Tergantung pada bagaimana mereka memukul dan di mana ia akan menentukan suara yang dihasilkan. Setiap jenis keju menghasilkan berbagai jenis suara, karena kepadatan dari jenis keju.

Aeolian Wind Harp

Alat ini terbuat dari sebuah kotak kayu dengan senar membentang di dua papan. Jika Anda ingin mendengar suara yang dapat dibuat dengan alat ini, harus ditempatkan dekat jendela yang terbuka, sehingga angin bisa meniup nya. Tali dapat dibuat dari bahan yang berbeda dengan ketebalan dari material yang sama dan akan menghasilkan nada yang sama atau pada tingkat nada yang berbeda. Kekuatan angin akan menentukan jenis suara yang dapat kita dengar.

Pegasus Piano

Ada hanya empat belas piano ini ada. Ini adalah keyboard melengkung yang sangat ergonomis. Piano ini memiliki 88 tombol yang unik, yang dapat membuat suara 7 ¼ oktaf. Tutupnya diatur pada sistem hidrolik yang memungkinkan operator untuk mengontrol berapa banyak suara diproyeksikan dari itu.

Kazoo Instrument

Kazoo dikenal sebagai instrumen angin. Ada mekanisme getar yang mengubah suara pemain ketika disuarakan nya. Anda harus berbicara atau bernyanyi ke perangkat. Mereka terbuat dari baja atau plastik.

Riday T-91 Midi Controller

Anda dapat memainkan alat musik ini seperti sebuah keyboard. Dengan menggunakan model dari semua jari untuk 12 scales, 12 scales mayor, 12 scales minor dan 12 scales blues. Gerakkan tangan Anda ke kanan atau kiri posisi bolak-balik di instrumen akan membantu Anda menghasilkan suara yang Anda inginkan.

Jaw Harp

Ini dikenal sebagai alat tertua di dunia. Alat ini terbuat dari logam fleksibel atau bambu. Instrumen yang terkait dengan bingkai dan diletakkan di mulut pemain. Akan bekerja bila dengan cara teagk terhadap gigi , yang pada gilirannya, mulut akan membuat resonator suara. Harus ada ruang yang cukup bagi lidah bergetar secara bebas. Pipi atau bibir tidak tidak bersentuhan langsung. Mengubah bentuk mulut akan mengubah nada dan volume sesuai dengan napas yang masuk dan keluar.

Weather Harp

Alat ini terbuat dari kayu lapis laut, kulit kambing, media epoksi dan campuran. Alat ini dioperasikan oleh angin. Hal ini memiliki 21 string yang berasal dari pusat. Mereka akan memainkan 42 note string. Ada dua perangkat diaktifkan angin yang menghasilkan suara. cangkir Logam akan memetik senar untuk menghasilkan treble akord, sedangkan lengan keseimbangan akan memetik senar untuk menghasilkan nada bass.

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The Sound of Music

Nice storyline with great music inside.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film.The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay.
The musical originated with the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It contains many popular songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", "Sixteen Going on Seventeen", and "The Lonely Goatherd", as well as the title song.
The movie version was filmed on location in Salzburg, Austria and Bavaria in Southern Germany, and also at the 20th Century Fox Studios in California.

Act I

In Salzburg, Austria, just before World War II, nuns from Nonnberg Abbey sing the Dixit Dominus. One of the postulants, Maria Rainer, is on the nearby mountainside regretting leaving the beautiful hills ("The Sound of Music") where she was raised. She returns late. The Mother Abbess and the other nuns consider what to do about her ("Maria"). Maria apologizes for singing in the abbey garden without permission, and the Mother Abbess joins her in song ("My Favorite Things"). The Mother Abbess tells Maria that she should spend some time outside the abbey to decide whether she is ready for the monastic life. Maria will act as thegoverness to the seven children of widower Captain Georg von Trapp.

Maria arrives at the villa of Captain von Trapp, a decorated World War I Captain of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He explains her duties and summons the children with a bosun's whistle; they march in, clad in uniforms. He teaches Maria their individual signals on the whistle; but she openly disapproves of this militaristic approach. Alone with them, she breaks through their wariness, and she teaches them the basics of music ("Do-Re-Mi").

Rolf, a young messenger, delivers a telegram and then meets with the oldest girl, Liesl outside the villa. He claims he knows what is right for her because he is a year older than she is ("Sixteen Going on Seventeen"). They kiss, and Rolf runs off. Meanwhile, the housekeeper Frau Schmidt gives Maria material to make new clothes, as Maria had given all her possessions to the poor. Maria sees Liesl slipping through the window, wet from the thunderstorm but agrees to keep her secret. The other children are frightened by the storm. Maria sings the comforting "The Lonely Goatherd" to them.

Captain von Trapp arrives a month later with Baroness Elsa Schräder and Max Detweiler. Elsa tells Max that something is preventing the Captain from marrying her. Max opines that only poor people have the time for great romances ("How Can Love Survive"). Rolf enters, looking for Liesl, and greets them with "Heil". The Captain orders him away, saying that he is Austrian, not German. Maria and the children leapfrog in, wearing play-clothes made from old drapes. Infuriated, the Captain sends them off to change. Maria tells him that the children need him to love them, and he angrily orders her back to the abbey. As she apologizes, they hear the children singing "The Sound of Music", which Maria had taught them, to welcome Baroness Schräder. The Captain joins in, and he then embraces the children. Alone with Maria, he asks her to stay, thanking her for bringing music back into his house. Elsa is suspicious of Maria until Maria explains that she will be returning to the abbey in September.

The Captain gives a party to introduce Elsa, and guests argue over the Anschluss. Kurt asks Maria to teach him to dance the Laendler. When he is unable to negotiate a complicated figure, the Captain steps in to demonstrate. Maria and the Captain dance until they come face-to-face, and Maria breaks away, embarrassed and confused. Discussing the expected marriage between Elsa and the Captain, Brigitta tells Maria that she and the Captain are really in love with each other. Elsa asks the Captain to let the children say goodnight to the guests with a song, "So Long, Farewell". Max is amazed at their talent and wants them for the Saltzberg Festival, which he is organizing. The guests leave for the dining room, and Maria slips out the front door with her luggage.

At the abbey, Maria says that she is ready to take her monastic vows; but the Mother Abbess realizes that Maria is running away from her feelings. She tells Maria to face the Captain and discover if they love each other, and that, by searching for it, Maria must find the life she was meant to live ("Climb Ev'ry Mountain").

[edit]Act II

Max teaches the children how to sing on stage. When the Captain tries to lead them, they complain that he is not doing it as Maria did. The Captain tells the children that he has asked Elsa to marry him. The children try to cheer themselves up by singing "My Favorite Things", but are unsuccessful until they hear Maria singing on her way to rejoin them. Learning of the wedding plans, Maria decides to stay only until the Captain can arrange for another governess. Max and Elsa argue with the Captain about the imminent Anschluss, trying to convince him that it is inevitable ("No Way to Stop It"). When he refuses to compromise, Elsa breaks off the engagement. Alone, the Captain and Maria finally admit their love, desiring only to be "An Ordinary Couple". As they marry, the nuns reprise "Maria" against the wedding processional.

During the honeymoon, Max prepares the children to perform at the Saltzberg Festival. Herr Zeller, the Gauleiter, demands to know why they are not flying the flag of the Third Reich now that the Anschluss has occurred. The Captain and Maria return early from their honeymoon before the Festival. In view of developments, the Captain refuses to allow the children to sing. Max argues that the children would sing for Austria, but the Captain points out that Austria no longer exists. Maria and Liesl discuss romantic love; Maria predicts that in a few years Liesl will be married ("Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Reprise)"). Rolf enters with a telegram that offers the Captain a commission in the German Navy. He consults Maria and decides that they must secretly flee Austria. German Admiral von Schreiber arrives to find out why the Captain has not answered the telegram. He explains that the German Navy holds the Captain in high regard, offers him the commission and tells him to report immediately to Bremerhaven to assume command. Maria says that he cannot leave immediately, as they are all singing in the Festival concert, and the Admiral agrees to wait until after the concert.

At the concert, the von Trapps sing an elaborate version of "Do-Re-Mi". Then Max brings out the Captain's guitar, and he sings "Edelweiss", in which Austria's national flower becomes a declaration of loyalty to Austria itself. Max asks for an encore and announces that this is the von Trapp family's last chance to sing together, as the honor guard waits to escort the Captain to his new command. While the judges decide on the prizes, the von Trapps sing "So Long, Farewell", leaving the stage in small groups. Max then announces the runners-up, stalling as much as possible. When he announces that the first prize goes to the von Trapps and they do not appear, the Nazis start a search. The family hides at the Abbey, and the Nazis do not find them until Rolf comes upon them. He calls his lieutenant, but on seeing Liesl, he reports that he has found no one. A nun tells them that the borders have been closed. The von Trapps flee over the mountains as the nuns reprise "Climb Ev'ry Mountain".

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August Rush (movie)

Plot

A boy named Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) lives in an orphanage, all the while believing that his parents are alive. He believes the music that he hears all around him is his parents communicating with him. He meets a counselor, Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard), of the New York Child Services Department. Evan tells him he does not want to be adopted, because he believes his parents are still alive and will come to collect him eventually.

Through a series of flashbacks, his parents are revealed to be named Lyla Novacek, (Keri Russell), a famous concert cellist, and Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish guitarist and lead singer of a rock band, who spent one romantic night together and don't see each other for a long period of time. Lyla became pregnant, which her father did not approve of, instead wanting Lyla to have a successful career without the obstacle of a child. After an argument with her father, Lyla ran out of a restaurant and was hit by a car. While in hospital, she gave birth to a son. Afterwards, she was told by her father that her child "was gone", unaware that he had actually been delivered successfully and then been sent to an orphanage by her father.

Evan has a strong faith that as long as he follows the music he hears and reacts to it, he will have a chance to be found by his parents. He makes his way to New York City, where he is taken in by a man known as "Wizard" (Robin Williams), who houses various orphans and runaways, employing them to play music on the streets and taking a large cut of their tips. Evan immediately proves to be a musical child prodigy. Wizard enlists him and gives him the name "August Rush", convincing him he will be sent back to the orphanage if his real name is ever discovered.

Lyla only discovers that her son is alive when her father, knowing that he is dying, confesses what actually happened. Lyla immediately sets out to New York to look for her 11-year-old son.

After a raid by the police, Evan takes refuge in a church, where he again impresses with his natural musical talent and is enrolled at the Juilliard School as "August Rush." A work he composes is chosen to be performed by the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, but Wizard barges into a rehearsal, and Evan reluctantly follows him back to his life of performing music on the streets.

Meanwhile, Lyla has discovered Evan's identity and has decided to stay in New York while searching for her son. While there, she decides to resume her cello career. She is then chosen to play in the same concert, which features Evan's piece. Louis, wrongly assuming that Lyla has since married, also returns to New York to resume playing with his former band. He has a chance meeting with Evan in Washington Square Park and they play music together, although neither knows who the other is.

The night of the concert, Evan finally chooses to run from Wizard in favor of performing at his concert. In the meantime, Louis races to the park when he sees Evan's pseudonym along with Lyla's name on a sign billing the concert. Evan conducts his piece, and at its conclusion, he turns around to see Lyla and Louis standing hand in hand, and he finally makes the connection that they are his parents.

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As Long As I Have Music

The title of this blog is inspired from this song = )

Nodame Cantabile (movie)

This is one of my favorite serial movie. By watching this movie, I've improved my knowledge about music. This movie is fun and full of jokes. 

Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Hideki Takeuchi
Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki, Juri Ueno, Eita, Asami Mizukawa, Keisuke Koide, Eiji Wentz, Becky, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Yu Yamada, Shosuke Tanihara, Takeshi Nadagi, Seiji Fukushi, Michiko Kichise, Masatoh Ibu, Naoto TakenakaRunTime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Released By: GV
Rating: PG
Official Website: http://nodame-movie.jp/

Synopsis:
Following the success of the popular Japanese romantic comedy drama, NODAME CANTABILE: THE MOVIE hits the big screen! Hiroshi Tamaki and Juri Ueno reprise in their roles and continue their love for music and their pursuit for their ambitions. Chiaki (Hiroshi Tamaki) is an aspiring conductor who faces the challenge of leading an orchestra which is made up of substitutes. Nodame (Juri Ueno) gives her support to her beloved as she works hard towards achieving her dream to pass a promotion exam at their music conservatory. Will Chiaki be able to revive a broken down orchestra and launch his musical career? What will become of Nodame and Chiaki's relationship? 

1. "Nodame Cantabile" is adapted from Tomoko Ninomiya's serial manga "Nodame Cantabile" (first published in July 10, 2001).
2. The original manga is based on a real life person, Megumi Noda, who was a music college student at the time of the comic book publication and is now a piano teacher in Fukuoka.
3. The movie version will contain two parts: Part 1 will be released in Dec. 2009 and Part 2 will be released in spring 2010.
4. The script for the live acton movie "Nodame Cantabile" will take place shortly after the "Nodame Cantabile in Europe" drama special.
5. Filming for the live action "Nodame Cantabile" is set to run from May, 2009 through September, 2009. Shooting took place in five different countries: Japan, France, Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.